Yeleusin Sagyndykov has been assigned new governor of Aktobe by order of the president of RK Nursultan Nazarbayev, KZ-today correspondent reports.

On Saturday, July 10, the new governor was presented to the province administration by the prime minister of RK Danial Akhmetov.

Ye. Sagyndykov is 57. He has two higher educations - he graduated from Aktobe Pedagogic Institute and West Kazakhstan Agricultural Institute. He has PhD degree in economics.

During the last few years he was a deputy of the RK parliament's senate chamber, member of the faction of the republican party "Otan". Before that he headed the provincial department of people's education, worked as a deputy minister of education and a deputy governor of Aktobe province. Before his election as a parliament deputy Ye. Sagyndykov was the mayor of Aktobe.

KZ-today has been advised in the province administration that the former governor Yermek Imantayev, 37, has been dismissed from that position "due to a transfer to another job." He served as the province governor for more than two years.